Ironically then, when you first start this path it is not at all easy, even though it’s called least resistance.

It’s not easy because we are trained from birth to force everything – some of us are trained in this school of thought more strongly than others.

If you have some recent African ancestry (also known as people we call black), then the idea of striving and working hard for everything will most probably be very engrained.

This kind of striving often looks like; challenge, struggle, burden, aggression, control, anxiety and also fear and desperation.

Once you get into the habit of least resistance however, life really does start to flow.

Within two weeks, for example, I manifested £7000 to live off, whereas just two weeks prior I had no idea where the next lot of money would come from. I did this without worrying where money would come from, I just assumed that as long as I do not resist the now, then my needs will be met at the right time.

How do we know when we are genuinely driven by inspiration or and when we are acting out of fear and desperation?

The answer, I find, is simply; how does it feel? If the thoughts and behaviour related to the decision come with a calm lovingness then it’s probably inspiration. If we feel fearful and anxious then it’s probably an act of desperation.

Often when we act out of desperation we are actually trying to avoid a painful aspect of ourselves that has been repressed and shamed.

A quick way to get out of desperation is to acknowledge what we are in fear of, or what we are trying to escape from, and say “I am that I am”.

These 5 words are powerful. I’ve written about I Am That I Am extensively.

What about if the path of least resistance makes us lazy and unmotivated?

When you practice the path of least resistance you don’t need to worry that you might become lazy or unmotivated because motivated thoughts and desires naturally arise at the most appropriate time when we are ready for them.

You never know, whilst you’re on the path of least resistance you might just receive the most amazing business idea you’ve ever had, occuring exactly when you need it!

These life events tend to spiral us into an intense period of grieving.

From a spiritual perspective these events are not actually the “cause” of the grief, they are events that we have manifested from aspects of ourselves that are in pain.

This is an extremely difficult concept to accept or come to terms with.spiritual cleanse
If you feel uncomfortable with the idea that we manifest grief then I suggest you ignore it. It’s not too important in terms of understanding the difference between depression and a spiritual cleanse.

Understanding that we “create our own reality” doesn’t just happen overnight. It takes ages to accept it’s validity and this realisation often comes in incremental stages.

If you really want to believe that we create our own reality but you just can’t, don’t worry! Everything gets revealed when we are ready 🙂

What Happens With a Spiritual Cleanse?

When we consider an intensely painful experience as grieving, the process becomes one of refinement, purpose and strength.

I really do not wish to downplay the medical condition of depression. Neither do I wish to cause any offense.

I will tell you that on-paper, I should be diagnosed as suffering from medical depression. But I’m not.

Why?

Because I do not need a diagnosis of depression to help or alleviate my symptoms because, ultimately, I’m not looking to help or alleviate anything.

I accept and understand pain on a profoundly deep level and I have never been through a grieving period and not come out stronger by the end of it.

I have never ever come out of a grieving period and not felt a noticeable shift in my energy which then directly impacts on what I now attract into my reality.

There is absolutely no problem with anyone being diagnosed as depressed in my view.

I just feel that when we overuse the “I suffer from depression” mantra, we run the risk of losing our power. Sometimes quite significantly.

Sometimes the “I suffer from depression” self-talk can actually be a form of projecting shame on to an other. The other here is the label “depressed”.

The label “depressed” almost becomes a smokescreen, a way for us to actually not look deeper into our thought processes and behaviour, thought processes and behaviour that could very well influence how we manage intense mental pain from there onwards.

Pain Is Not Shame

I’m all about the idea that Pain is Not Shame, and I love what the Mental Health Awareness Movement is doing to take the stigma out of being depressed.spiritual cleanse
Being in pain, whether mental or physical, should never be something we are ashamed of.

At the end of the day grieving is never easy, regardless of what we call it.

Pain is pain.

Pain is ok, and pain should not be something that we are ashamed of.

Whether it’s a spiritual cleanse or not, seeing each other’s pain for what it is, is what it means to love.

To love is to be present. Unconditionally – without judgement or condemnation, and sometimes even without words or advice.

I AM THAT I AM

We dream and romanticise about where we might be in 2 or 3 years time.

But who we might become is not who we are being. Who we might become also is not where we are now.

Obsessive focus on who we might become then is a form of abandonment for who we are today.

Acceptance is found in the now, not in the future. Acceptance is love.

When we say, “I am that I am”, and we fully mean it, what we are doing in this moment is recognising ourselves as completely one with both the creator and the created.

Say for instance you wake up feeling groggy, (which literally just happened to me now lol).

As soon as we recognise the feeling of grogginess, we are trained from birth in this current world to shun and abandon any feelings that “do not feel good” as separate from ourselves.

We are not allowed to be anything that doesn’t feel pleasant. We call these feelings, “BAD”.I AM THAT I AM
We make the equation into this, when I feel unpleasant emotions I am bad, and I have probably done something wrong.

How about feeling groggy because at this moment you are groggy and you are manifesting this as grogginess.

Kinda simple. (No long ting – as we say in London).

So we could instead just say to ourselves I AM THAT I AM!

When we do this we become one with now and we are at our full capacity to create magic and enjoy what we are creating in the now.

We also in this moment recognise ourselves as one with the creator.

What is Otherism?

The extent to which we perceive ourselves as “other”, is the extent to which we imagine ourselves as being other than where we are right now.

Perceiving of an “other” is so completely normal in our minds that to imagine we could exist in a way without an “other” seems like a really stupid joke.

I am me and you are other. Dah.

However the stronger we are attached to the idea of an “Other” the stronger we are attached to the idea that separation is real.

The most painful God-state to be in is one where we perceive ourselves as separate. This is an illusion. God cannot be separate if God is all that there is!

None of us can escape Otherism. We are all one. If society perceives an “other”, eg blacks and whites, straights and gays, cis and trans etc, then internally we can only do the same.

Society and the self are a projection of the same thing, that thing is: the Universe! or God.

Many of us live a life trying to be something other than who we are now.

We think that if we continue to focus on who we might become then one day, in the magical future, we might become that thing.

It’s like dangling a carrot in front of your face. Mate, you’ll never get to eat that carrot.

The most successful people in this world have developed the strongest ability to harness the power of Now.

Successful people, when success is not defined by richness but rather by the amount of value we bring to the world, recognise themselves as creators (even if they don’t consciously realise that they do!).

Success says, I have the power to create my own destiny.

Delusion says, I am worth something now because of who I might become in my destiny.

When you realise that you have the power to create your own destiny you realise that that power exists not in some imaginary future, but right in the now, where you are.

Why Do We Avoid Now?

In the Now often there lay a shit load of pain.

In the now often we haven’t learnt to accept unpleasant emotions. We see unpleasant emotions as either an indication that we are bad people or that we have done something wrong.

Because unpleasant emotions mean, for so many of us, that we have done something wrong, we avoid it completely.

We are quite literally running away from ourselves.

We are creators and we are creation of what we create.

Only in the power of Now do we step into our full power.

Only when we loosen our attachment to “Otherism” do we create a world filled with much more love.

Only when we loosen our attachment to “Otherism” do we come together united in the Universal truth of Oneness.

Loving our enemies is the same as loving ourselves because everything is our reflection.

One of the most difficult practices is to look at something we do not like in our reflection and recognise that we are that. We have literally attracted that into our reality.

It’s not to say we take self-blame and criticise ourselves for the action of others.

It’s not to say that we take responsibility for the action of others either.How to love our enemy

What we miss often is that the law of attraction means not only that we can attract whatever we want, it means that we are attracting whatever we are.

We can use our so-called enemies then as a useful mirror helping us to know who we are in this moment.

Anything we no longer want to attract we can simply, at any time, choose what else we would prefer.

But to choose something we prefer, we must first recognise that what we attracted, was us. We recognise that it was who we were and we don’t judge it. We don’t shame ourselves. We simply accept it. Lovingly if possible lol.

If we try to attract something different without recognising that we were what we attracted, then the Universe will give us the same thing. The Universe does this so we can learn who we are being, as a human being.

We have many soulmates throughout our lifetime.

How incredible is the idea that sometimes our so-called enemy is in fact one of our soulmates!?

A soulmate could be described as anyone who allows you to see who you are clearer than others do.

This description would include those who trigger us in ways others do not.

The triggers might be painful, but the presentation of pain is always a great chance for healing.

Even if you don’t believe in soulmates it’s still a useful idea.

If we have the perspective that the Universe is always serving our best and greatest interest then we are less inclined to become victims of our circumstances.

Knowing we create reality is not supposed to be some harsh indictment. It is to empower and inspire us to always strive for what we long for.

You know, the things that make our hearts race, our sweat pour and our tongues wag!

Forget all this trying to prove a point to our haters crap.

What we perceive as an enemy could be the catalyst for the change we’ve always wanted.